Book record
Kyra Kyralina
Panait Istrati
Translated from Romanian by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno
Kyra Kyralina, by Panait Istrati, is a Romanian poetry collection from Romania, translated by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, published by Talisman House, Publishers in 2010. It is a Romanian volume with narrative hunger, wanderer energy, and the romance of lives told at the edge of survival. Istrati's work brings the poem or lyric prose close to storytelling, where voice becomes the road itself. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Romania. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Talisman House Publishers
- Language
- Romanian
- Country
- Romania
- ISBN
- 9781584980759